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Greedy local store owners put themselves out of business. They are slowly coming back by returning to their core reason for existing which is to provide a better value than the competiton by offering better service for the price charged. "Main street" will never be able to compete on price alone.
When I was younger, I worked at one of the very first Staples stores here in Northern Virginia as a part-time stock person in the evenings. Why would anyone in their right mind pay Ginns Office Supply $2.00 EACH for a ball point pen when you could get an entire box of them for 63 cents? People were paying that because there were very few other places to go and all charged similar prices.
So tell me, why am I subsidizing a company that made $15.7 BILLION in profit in 2011?
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Originally Posted by Gtownoe
Wal-Mart has the profits to pay its employees more. Small businesses do not. They are not complaining about the pay rate per say, but the pay rate in comparison to their profit margins.
It's not like they don't have enough money. Hell, the HEIRS, have more wealth then the bottom 47% of the country combined!!
you need to realize that much of those profits that wal mart posted were from overseas operations. second those profits are generated store by store and not as a whole company, though they are posted as what the whole company made. each store has to be self sufficient.
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Is California going to get on the case of all other retailers as well? Or are they just doing this for show?
they are showboating as usual. wal mart is an easy target.
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There's a lot of truth to that. Walmart provides a lot jobs to people who might not find work elsewhere. Also, workers there can go to community colleges to seek new skills. I'm one of the rare liberals who doesn't mind shopping at Walmart and who also defends the company.
good points.
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Walmart put Main street out of business.
that may be, but wal mart did it the old fashioned way, they earned it. they made the deals to get store prices down, and in most areas when a wal mart moved into the area, some mom and pop stores did close, but those people then went to work for wal mart for about the SAME wages as the mom and pops paid, so no loss there, but a net gain in jobs of about 250.
take the wal mart in luray for instance, there was a loss of 50 jobs from the mom and pop stores that were already on the brink of closing, but wal mart there hired 300 employees. not only that but they paid property taxes, generated sales taxes, etc. that wal mart has been good for that area.
one thing that some complain about when a wal mart goes in is that wal mart doesnt hire locals to build the stores, i counter with, when wal mart goes into a small town, how many contractors can handle not only building the stores, but doing on wal marts timetable?
The owners of Walmart are disgustingly rich...however, they should be ashamed, and people need to call them out on they're greed.
As a walmart employee, they work you minimum hours so they don't have to pay you benefits, however, you are told, "that cart over there needs to be emptied before you go home", so, if that employee only has 10 minutes left to work, and they don't stay and work over time and finish it, they are told, they can be replaced, because they have so many people waiting to work. And, they don't pay them overtime....period!
The greed in this country is so bad I am ashamed....and what bothers me, is Walmart uses people like slaves...however, things always have a way of coming full circle, and one day, there will be jobs once again, and Walmart will be left with all these stores and no one to work in them...
................The greed in this country is so bad I am ashamed....and what bothers me, is Walmart uses people like slaves...however, things always have a way of coming full circle, and one day, there will be jobs once again, and Walmart will be left with all these stores and no one to work in them...
Awful!!!
So more than one million Americans decide that the highest and best use of their time is to go punch in at Walmart every single workday....they have no superior offers for the sale of their labor....all things considered, Walmart is offering each one of them the best opportunity available to them....and you think it is akin to slavery??!?
The stupidity in this country is so bad I am ashamed.
There isnt any other state with more poverty than California.
So?
So? The article says that under the traditional calculation, which is 16.3%, is that it puts California right next to a lot of other states who have less taxes and less regulation. Also, the map disproves a correlation between states who have higher taxes and more regulation with having a higher poverty rate.
The owners of Walmart are disgustingly rich...however, they should be ashamed, and people need to call them out on they're greed.
As a walmart employee, they work you minimum hours so they don't have to pay you benefits, however, you are told, "that cart over there needs to be emptied before you go home", so, if that employee only has 10 minutes left to work, and they don't stay and work over time and finish it, they are told, they can be replaced, because they have so many people waiting to work. And, they don't pay them overtime....period!
The greed in this country is so bad I am ashamed....and what bothers me, is Walmart uses people like slaves...however, things always have a way of coming full circle, and one day, there will be jobs once again, and Walmart will be left with all these stores and no one to work in them...
Awful!!!
Baloney. You are not entitled to OT pay until you work 40 hours of regular time.
You can never find an employee and you typically need their help because the store is one big disaster zone.
I'd rather pay more money to go to a decent store.
Wal-Mart dealt with the recession by cutting back associates. That they still can't afford hiring them back is an indication of the economic stress the country is facing.
Going to a different retailer is one way to voice your dissatisfaction.
Another, would be to complain directly to the top brass. Since Sam Walton "left the building", W-M has been sliding down the slope of decline in quality and service.
The owners of Walmart are disgustingly rich...however, they should be ashamed, and people need to call them out on they're greed.
As a walmart employee, they work you minimum hours so they don't have to pay you benefits, however, you are told, "that cart over there needs to be emptied before you go home", so, if that employee only has 10 minutes left to work, and they don't stay and work over time and finish it, they are told, they can be replaced, because they have so many people waiting to work. And, they don't pay them overtime....period!
The greed in this country is so bad I am ashamed....and what bothers me, is Walmart uses people like slaves...however, things always have a way of coming full circle, and one day, there will be jobs once again, and Walmart will be left with all these stores and no one to work in them...
Awful!!!
I really wish CostCo would move into their market. They have a much better business model and actually care about their employees and the community.
Their CEO isn't money hungry and surprisingly has much less ego than a lot of these posters.
The greed in this country is so bad I am ashamed....and what bothers me, is Walmart uses people like slaves...however, things always have a way of coming full circle, and one day, there will be jobs once again, and Walmart will be left with all these stores and no one to work in them...
Awful!!!
Not really. There will always be the semi uneducated who drop out of school in the 10th grade and have very few job skills.
Most end up mowing lawns, burger flippers, going to jail.
At least with WalMart, Home Depot, Target, Lowes they've got a chance of getting ahead at a decent job.
Those cashiers at Mom & Pop stores always worked for minimum wage with no benefits.
That group of people will always exist. They are lucky someone provides them any work at all.
Baloney. You are not entitled to OT pay until you work 40 hours of regular time.
or more than ten hours in one day at the same job.
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